...Wojciech Jacheć; Anna Polewczyk; Dorota Nowosielecka; Andrzej Kutarski Isolated pocket infection Pocket infection complicated by infective endocarditis Medical University of Silesia Katowice, Poland scientific BNW-1-115/K/3/K Corresponding author. Tel: +48600024074. E-mail address...

... cytokine crucial for wound healing and infection response. Tocilizumab (TCZ), a monoclonal antibody against IL-6 receptors acting as a disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drug (DMARD), is used to treat idiopathic multicentric Castleman disease (iMCD). Regarding perioperative management, the current guidelines...

... associations of low plasma LDL cholesterol with risk of bacterial and viral infections in 119 805 individuals from the Copenhagen General Population Study/Copenhagen City Heart Study, 468 701 from the UK Biobank, and up to 376 773 from the FinnGen Research Project. Observationally, low LDL cholesterol...

... the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Leadless pacemaker Transvenous lead removal Device-related infection...

.... Abstract Aims Cardiac implantable electronic device (CIED) infections are a burden to hospitals and costly for healthcare systems. Chronic kidney disease (CKD) increases the risk of CIED infections, but its differential impact on healthcare utilization, costs, and outcomes is not known. Methods...

... via the Permissions link on the article page on our site—for further information please contact [email protected]. Abstract Aims Debulking of infective mass to reduce the burden if infective material is a fundamental principle in the surgical management of infection. The aim...

...Tardu Özkartal; Andrea Demarchi; Giulio Conte; Damiano Pongan; Catherine Klersy; Maria Luce Caputo; Marco Bergonti; Enos Bernasconi; Valeria Gaia; Christopher B Granger; Angelo Auricchio 03 07 2023 18 01 2024 15 02 2024 Bloodstream infection was defined as the presence of blood cultures...

...Allegra Battistoni; Massimo Volpe; Carmine Morisco; Gaetano Piccinocchi; Roberto Piccinocchi; Massimo Fini; Stefania Proietti; Stefano Bonassi; Bruno Trimarco Graphical Abstract Graphical Abstract SARS-COV-2 Atrial fibrillation Myocardial infarction Heart failure Stroke Viral infection...

...-embryonic cardiomyocytes, yielding >90% troponin-I-positive cells, has been described elsewhere. ¹⁹ We obtained about 7–9 embryos for both WT and ISG15^−/− condition from each mother and sacrificed 1–2 animals for each experiment. Cardiomyocytes were infected with CVB3 at an MOI...

...]. We also replicated associations for a PCSK9 variant, reported in UK Biobank, with increased risks of acute upper respiratory tract infection (URTI) [pooled OR after meta-analysis of 1.87 (1.38–2.54); P = 5.4 × 10⁻⁵] and self-reported asthma [pooled OR of 1.17 (1.04–1.30...

... of the lead extraction ‘tool box’ implying the having a variety of tools available increases the success and safety of the procedure. Moreover, despite the chosen approach, current outcomes of TLE clearly outweigh the risk of postponing the procedure, especially for patients with CIED infection. No funding...

... device (CIED) infection, was compared with a historical control of 3% hydrogen peroxide (H₂O₂) in a prospective observational study. Methods and results The device pocket was irrigated, and all hardware accessible within (leads, suture sleeves, pulse generator) was wiped...

...Md Shajedur Rahman Shawon; Oluwadamisola Temilade Sotade; Michelle Hill; Liesl Strachan; Gabrielle Challis; Sze-Yuan Ooi; Louisa R Jorm CIED infection All-cause mortality Pacemaker Pocket infection NHMRC 10.13039/501100000925 #APP11447430 Medtronic Australasia Pty Ltd Corresponding...

... Diagnosis Echocardiography Endocarditis Infection Nuclear imaging Positron emission tomography Prevention Prognosis Prosthetic heart valve Valve disease 1. Preamble 3953 2. Introduction 3955  2.1. What is new 3955 3. Prevention 3959  3.1. Rationale 3959  3.2. Populations at risk...

... with device-related infection (DRI) from 2011 to 2018. Trends for coronary artery disease (P = 0.94) and end-stage renal disease (P = 0.88) were statistically insignificant while all other comorbidities showed significant interval increase (P < 0.001 for all others). CAD...

... modification date and exit dates. We calculated for each patient the raw PADIT risk scores ¹¹ and the relative risk of infection-related events for each score was estimated and reported as Odds Ratio, together with its 95% CI as a sensitivity analysis. To account for differences in baseline...

...-morbidity burden (2.75 vs. 1.78, P < 0.001), and an infective indication for extraction (n = 287, 55.0% vs. n = 200, 64.1%, P = 0.012). Figure 1 Kaplan–Meier survival probability in patients stratified by sex. CI, confidence interval; HR, hazard ratio. Within...

... to infection). The S-ICD system was successfully extracted in all patients, and no complications were reported; the median procedure duration was 40 (25th–75th percentile: 20–55) min. Simple manual traction was sufficient to remove the lead in 59 (84%) patients, in whom lead-dwelling time was shorter [20 (9–32...

...Maria Hee Jung Park Frausing; Jens Brock Johansen; Daniela Afonso; Ole Dan Jørgensen; Thomas Olsen; Christian Gerdes; Mette Lundsby Johansen; Claudia Wolff; Stuart Mealing; Jens Cosedis Nielsen; Mads Brix Kronborg Cardiac resynchronization therapy Infection Cost-effectiveness analysis...

...Sergio Luengo Pérez; Julián Abdala Lizarraga; Esther Jaén Ferrer; Francisco Ridocci Soriano; Sadaf Raza; Mark Abela; Matthew Williams; Nikolaos Spinthakis; Nikesh Jathanna Learning points Monkeypox infection is generally self-limiting with low mortality. Scientific evidence suggests benign...